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Frederik Pohl, one of the last surviving Golden Age science fiction authors, died Monday.

Pohl, 93, was a novelist, science writer, editor, literary agent, lecturer, environmentalist and futurist, and one of the last remaining founders of science-fiction fandom and the fabled club The Futurians.

According to a detailed statement issued by the Kurman Communications agency, Pohl was the author of more than 40 novels, including such notable books as “Jem,” “Man Plus,” “Gateway” and “The Space Merchants,” a marvelous, satire on the advertising industry in collaboration with Cyril Kornbluth. His career began in 1937 with the sale of a poem, “Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna,” to Amazing Stories magazine.

“It is difficult to sum up the significance of Frederik Pohl to the science fiction field in few words,” said James Frenkel, who had been Mr. Pohl’s editor since 1993. “He was instrumental to the flowering of the field in the mid-to-late twentieth century, and it is hard to dispute that the field would be much the poorer without his talent and remarkable body of work as a magazine and book editor, a collaborator and a solo author.”

Pohl edited Astonishing Stories, Super Science Stories, Galaxy and If magazines, as well as an original anthology series, Star Science Fiction, launching the careers of prominent writers such as James Blish and Larry Niven. During his time as a literary agent, Pohl represented most of the significant science-fiction writers of the period, among them Isaac Asimov, Algis Budrys, Hal Clement, Fritz Leiber and John Wyndham. Pohl’s honors during his carer included the National Book Award (then called the American Book Award) for “Jem,” the annual award of the Popular Culture Association and the United Nations Society of Writers Award.

For his contributions to science fiction, he was named a grand master of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, an organization of which he was once president. He also won its Nebula Award for two of his novels and seven Hugo Awards from the World Science Fiction Society. Pohl was the only person ever to have received the Hugo in the three categories of editor, author and fan writer.

In later years, Pohl even yielded to the power of the Internet and wrote blog that included memories of his life and the science fiction community, but also discussed science and championed progressive politics, topics in which he had a lifelong interest.

Ronald Hawkins may be contacted at rhawkins@schurz.com or rondhawkins@msn.com. Most Indiana Science Fiction Sojourns blogs also are available in print editions of the Reporter-Times and as an Online column at www.reporter-times.com. It is available for use by all Schurz Communications outlets.